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Stuck in Vermont

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Airing the month of February

Episodes 61-64

This month on Stuck in Vermont:

Stuck in Vermont 64: Vermont 3.0 Creative/Tech Career Jam 05:32 Added: 2 weeks ago Views: 261
Stuck in Vermont 63: Dealer.com 04:06 Added: 3 weeks ago Views: 441	Stuck in Vermont 62: VT Comedy Divas 05:14 Added: 1 month ago Views: 457 Stuck in Vermont 61: VT Fancy Felines 05:11 Added: 1 month ago Views: 5,179

VT Fancy Felines
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Added: 1 month ago
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Plus, check out my cool new John Deere hat (thank you stranger?) and Lucy the dog makes an appearance (you can hear her chewing her bones off camera the entire intro/outro - charming addition).

Marcel in SF

Even though Marcel is far away in a new city where the weather has been ridiculously beautiful lately and there are oodles of new places to go and explore, poor Marcel has been hanging around the flat and drinking himself silly.

Sadly, I cannot say I am surprised. I had hoped that a change in locale and weather might shake up my friend the frog's ever-present blues but sadly, he seems as grumpy as ever. I got this update from his flatmate Sarah:

Hope you will not be snowed under. Be strong for Marcel! He needs you now. Things are not so well, as these photos will tell. As you will see, he has been up to his old naughty tricks - so self defeating!


I find him in the doorway most mornings, passed out with a bottle. All the other animals ADORED him, and gathered round when he first appeared, but Olivia the pig loves him most of all, and with every squeeze from her his heart grows smaller, and nastier.



She loves to pounce on him, and looks for him everywhere! He has tried to hide, and even disguise himself, but she always finds him! He is quite miserable, and she finds that wonderful. Poor Marcel!

Plotnick Strikes Again

Danny Plotnick the 8mm Rock Star has made a new film about 80s and 90s underground subcultures. Makes me feel glad to be old and have a closet full o' mix tapes and boxes of cruddy VHS tapes, sorta:



Here is Danny cleaning his toilet, dusting the living room and making a waffle while talking about why he is so hella awesome, cause all he cares about is the STORY man, I love it:



His compilation DVD, Warts and All just came out at Microcinema. You would have to be a loser not to buy it. Even better, you can rent it on Netflix starting on Feb 26th. Oh boy!

Watch it, love him, want to be him, dream that he lets you touch his hair.

Happy Heart Day

This video will warm the chilliest of hearts, mine feels all fuzzah now:

Cheerleaders are Stuck in VT

NVAC Cheerleading Competition [66]

Molly the Warrior

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you."

Winnie the Pooh

Today I am thinking about my good friend Undead Molly. She is strong and fearless and one of the most generous, thoughtful, caring, wise, stylish, saucy people I have ever been lucky enough to know.

Later today she is having a scary surgery but I know she is going to be fine because the world needs her. And she has a good doctor and a strong body and she is gonna fight fight FIGHT her way back to good health.

We love you Molly, get better real soon.

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” Orson Welles

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
Bernard Meltzer “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one”
C.S. Lewis

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot

Marcel in California

Marcel is SO over the cold. So he hopped a plane to California to have some wild Cali adventures.

He toured the offices of SF Chronicle, wandered about the Mission, Japan Town and downtown, ambled through Mountain View Cemetery, drove up Highway 1 on a rainy day, ate sushi with Crocker and a burrito at Chrissy Fields, shopped at Ikea and Thrift Town, drank at the Fairmont, the Tonga Room, the Albatross and the Mallard and crossed the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges on multiple occasions.

Marcel does not like people much but he did not mind these folks/animals/small children: Jackson, Sarah, Jeff, Travis, Rufus, Jen, Henry, Matt, Sue, Renee, Molly, Ivo, Lauren, Anabelle and Sophie. In fact, he likes San Francisco so much that he decided to stay on a bit, even after I left.

See it all in the video of Marcel's California travels:



Enjoy SF Marcel, you lucky bastard.

PS I didn't bring my video camera to CA so I could take a "real" vacation. Turns out that 700 frog photos later, I cannot stop my obsessive compulsive streak from discovering an outlet. Oh well, at least it is not heroin.

Coastal Aftershocks

I've been back in VT for almost 4 days now and I am still a bit discombobulated.

The day I left SF it was stormy and as I drove my PT Cruiser (yes, laugh if you must, old ladies deserve bright blue old ladee rental cars) back to the airport, a large chunk of me wanted to turn around and drive back, up the 101 North to my little rainy city by the bay.

I barely made it home through the snowstorm that was pummeling the East Coast all day Wednesday. The plane tossed us around like jumping beans and I closed my eyes so Heidi Klum was not the last image I saw before certain death.

When we landed in VT it was dark, snowy and freezing. I could barely get a ride home from the airport and everything was dead and impassable. My car was buried beneath 4 feet of snow and I could barely get my suitcase in the front door. Could I really have been outside wearing a t-shirt and sniffing bright purple flowers 8 hours earlier??

Since I couldn't stick around, I left a silent, morose piece of me back in SF, and hopefully he is having a grand old time in my absence. I am sure the town will be dry of liquor in no time.

I'll be thinking of you SF and Marcel and imagining all your calamities! Until we meet again or until I discover a way to be bi-coastal! Au revoir!

Kat Clear is Stuck in VT

Kat Clear [65]

I gotta admit, flying into a fierce snowstorm after a week of surf and sun in California made this whole "Stuck/Suck in VT" life of mine all the more apropos. Still, I love meeting people like Kat Clear who got stuck in VT with me before I left for Cali and is a lovely artist and friend.